But I couldn't think Of anywhere I would've rather been To watch it all burn away

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Grapevine Fires

Before I make you overdose on Death Cab I wanted to sneak in one last song in celebration and you know in case the world ends. And usually apocalypses are on the top of my being terrified list but even though I'm finding it doubtful anyhow, I seem surprisingly ok with it. I'm not confident in most things but I am confident with me and god. He knows me too well and takes me in all the same so really pretty ok with hanging with him for you know, ever, or waiting and hanging with some people down here that I kinda love alot too. So whether there is a biblical rapture, zombie apocalypse or just another boring day my mood about it, at least for now, is pretty much like this song, so it seemed appropriate. Wherever you may be tomorrow or wherever you may go, this one's for you...And plus this song is about Ben Gibbard hanging out with Johnathan Rice aka the love of my musical life so of course I'd end on this!



When the wind picked up, the fire spread
And the grapevine seemed left for dead
And the northern sky looked like the end of days
The end of days

And a wake-up call to a rented room
Sounded like an alarm of impending doom
To warn us it's only a matter of time
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn
Before we all burn

Bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school when we picked her up
And drove to a cemetery on a hill, on a hill

We watched the plumes paint the sky gray
She laughed and danced through the field of graves
And there I knew it would be all right
That everything would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right
Would be all right

And the news reports
On the radio said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think
Of anywhere I would've rather been
To watch it all burn away
Burn away
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn
Burn

And the firemen worked in double shifts
With prayers for rain on their lips
And they knew it was only a matter of time

Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Cath

I'm deeming this bright sunny day off clinical Death Cab for Cutie day because in less than 7 hours I will get to enjoy this awesomeness first hand in a tiny venue that I can bike to. Awe some days the starts do align. Sure today's song is kinda sad but still catchy and makes me wanna break up a wedding just to sing it...ok not really...probably. Anyway for everyone who deserves better but is settling today, this one's for you. Enjoy that bright and sunny day, you deserve it!



Cath, she stands with a well-intentioned man
But she can't relax with his hand on the small of her back
And as the flashbulbs burst
She holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

Cath, it seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
Where the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows, and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you more

And soon everybody will ask what became of you
'Cause your heart was dying fast, and you didn't know what to do

The whispers that it won't last roll up and down the pews
But if their hearts were dying that fast,
They'd have done the same as you
And I'd have done the same as you

so this is the new year. and i don't feel any different.

Artist- Death Cab for Cutie
Song of the day- The New Year

My new years eves always tend to be anticlimactic, almost as is if all my energy from the holiday seasons is gone. The new year however always brings the invitation to a start of something. A year ago at this time I was about to start something crazy I never thought I'd be able to do, a start of a new life, a new path, a new home which 365 days later almost feels like a home I've always had. It's so interesting, I've had a lot of new beginnings and will have a lot more to come. A year from now I'll be hopefully done witch school and starting a whole new adventure I can't even fathom. I always tend to do that around the holidays, try and figure out where I'll be this time around next year and I usually can't wrap my mind around it, but it always comes, rarely what I expected, often better often growing without realizing, changing without knowing till you take a step back and look where you've come from and where you will go and you begin to see the changes in your life. It's interesting, maybe sometimes anticlimactic but there is always something whether big or small, you may not feel different but something has always changed, its a product of life. The possibility of life. What could we become this year?



so this is the new year.
and i don't feel any different.
the clanking of crystal
explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

so this is the new year
and I have no resolutions
for self assigned penance
for problems with easy solutions

so everybody put your best suit or dress on
let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
as thirty dialogues bleed into one

i wish the world was flat like the old days
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there'd be no distance that can hold us back.

there'd be no distance that could hold us back (x2)

so this is the new year (x4)

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Marching Bands of Manhattan

I know I just posted a death cab song, but I've recently been having a nice reunion with them and my ipod lately and can't seem to stop listening. Today's song feels a bit like my anthem during this crazy quarter of classes, ups and downs, and full on stressers. Plus having to start writing papers again has put me in a weird isolatory phase I remember from writing days of ol' and staying up till 3am with a box of powdered donuts, acquiring many bad habits and attempting to meet deadlines. Only this time I don't get to write about fantastical fictional occurrences created in my head or hipster bands I had crushes on, but medical jargon I'm still not too fond of. I think I hear the powdered donuts calling.



If I could open my arms
And span the length of the isle of Manhattan
I'd bring it to where you are
Making a lake of the East River and Hudson

And if I could open my mouth
Wide enough for a marching band to march out
They would make your name sing
And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings

I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time
Oh, what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you

And it is true what you say
That I live like a hermit in my own head
But when the sun shines again
I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is going to drown

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is going to drown

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is going to drown

Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is going to drown

Your love is going to drown
Your love is going to drown
Your love is going to drown
Your love is going to drown
Your love is going to . . . .

This is fact not fiction for the first time in years

Artist- Death Cab For Cutie
Song of the day- Lack of color

I'm currently wondering if I would have been more productive today if I let myself nap post intense nursing exam instead of trying to write mass papers in a fairly delirious state. I think my current sleepy affect (ha sorry I'm still vomiting psych terms from my test earlier) or mood can best be expressed by the tone of this song and how my mind just keeps wondering to random thoughts or half finished pictures that just keep changing. But whatever state your in, whether it's fairly melancholy like myself, frustrated or completely elated,I hope you aren't lacking any color...that didn't quite stream together as well as I had hoped but even if I've ceased to make sense, Death Cab is always quite enjoyable.



And when i see you
I really see you upside down
But my brain knows better
It picks you up and turns you around
Turns you around, turns you around

If you feel discouraged
That there's a lack of color here
Please don't worry lover
It's really bursting at the seems
Absorbing everything
The spectrum's a to z

This fact not fiction
For the first time in years
And all the girls in every girlie magazine
Can't make me feel any less alone
I'm reaching for the phone

To call at 7:03 and on your machine I slur a plea for you to come home
But i know it's too late
I should have given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay [x3]

This is fact not fiction
For the first time in years